Featured Tune: "please answer..." from alexsmind

A Slow-Burning Cry Into the Void

Alexsmind’s please answer... is more than just a doom metal track, it’s a raw, aching meditation on personal trauma disguised as sonic sludge. Clocking in at 13 minutes, this instrumental piece unfolds like a fog rolling in: heavy, relentless, and impossible to ignore. Inspired by the Japanese experimental band Boris, alexsmind channels the glacial pace and distorted texture of drone metal to explore something deeply intimate, his fraught relationship with phone calls and the emotional baggage they carry.

What makes please answer... so powerful is its emotional weight, despite the absence of lyrics. Each drawn-out riff feels like a reluctant step into a memory, with the distortion acting like a buffer between the listener and the pain underneath. The production is deliberately murky, almost suffocating in its intensity, but therein lies its brilliance, you don’t just listen, you feel the resistance, the dread, the plea that never quite gets voiced.

This isn’t background music. It demands attention. It invites you into a deeply personal headspace, one marked by anxiety, overthinking, and the kind of emotional bruising that lingers for years. And somehow, alexsmind makes it feel beautiful. Painful, yes, but beautiful in its honesty and unflinching pace.